Micronutrients

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Iodine deficiency can adversely affect child development including stunted growth. However, the effect of iodine supplementation or fortification on prenatal and postnatal growth in children (<18 years) is unclear.
The poten...

Food sources of nutrients in young children in China have been little investigated. The objective of this study was to understand feeding patterns of young children through an analysis of food sources of energy and nutrients in the di...

Surveys have indicated that 62 % of preschool-age Indian children suffer from sub-clinical vitamin A deficiency (VAD), with a threefold higher prevalence of severe forms of VAD among children from schedule castes (SC) or schedule trib...

More than two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiency, otherwise known as hidden hunger. Hidden hunger is a lack of the vital micronutrients needed to live a health life. Hidden hunger is different from hunger in tha...

This guide is a user-friendly guide for programme managers and planners for conducting a Maternal Child Health and Nutrition assessment to investigate intra-household roles and influence. The guide introduces a holistic, or...

Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) are promising home fortification products, but the optimal zinc level needed to improve growth and reduce morbidity is uncertain.
This study aims to assess the impact of ...

Feeding programs for preschool-aged children are intended to help address the single biggest cause of the global burden of disease: undernutrition. The intervention of interest concerns provision of energy (with nutrients/ micronutrie...

The most recent South African National Food Consumption Survey-Fortification Baseline (NFCS-FB) in 2005 reported that almost 14% of South African children aged 1–5 years were vitamin A deficient (serum retinol (SR) concentration...

Severe anemia (hemoglobin, 70 g/L) in pregnancy may increase the risk of maternal and perinatal mortality.
In this study, response to standard treatment with high-dose iron–folic acid was assessed for 90 d and single-dose...

Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a major public health problem in low and middle income countries affecting 190 million children under 5 years of age. VAD pre-disposes children to increased risk of a range of problems, including respirat...